Exciting new collaboration between Lab4Living and China Academy of Arts

Lab4Living and China Academy of Art logos

Paul Chamberlain, Mark Phillips and Ian Gwilt recently attended the launch of the China Health Collaboration in Hangzhou. The collaboration brings together designers, researchers and students from Lab4Living and the China Academy of Arts with the express purpose of sharing knowledge, testing methodologies, undertaking research and proposing and developing solutions across the following themes: Healthy ageing Promoting independence Enabling environments […]

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Designing for Service – Key Issues and New Directions – Features chapter by Professor Ian Gwilt

Image by Bloomsbury - Designing for Service book

Service design is the activity of planning and organising people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service in order to improve its quality and the interaction between service provider and customers. It is now a growing field of both practice and academic research. Designing for Service brings together a wide range of international contributors to map the field of […]

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Our Future Shared with Robots – exhibition opens Friday 17 March 2017

Co-biotics event images - images by Professor Ian Gwilt

Co-botics: Our Future Shared with Robots Adelphi Room, Crucible Theatre, 55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield, S1 1DA Friday 17 March & Saturday 18 March 2017 Exhibition is open to the general public and for school group bookings Admission is free As robots and automated devices becomes more commonplace, this exhibition poses questions about the future use of robotic technologies in society. […]

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